phantomjs on centos 6.2

Right now I have jenkins to do automation build and static code analysis for php projects. However, I need to look into client side javascript automation unit test suites and selenium server to do client-side functional test.

This post will be a long history of what I am going through (will include steps with failures…)

1. I downloaded phantomjs-1.7.0-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 binary file from this page.

2. When I executed it, I got this error:
phantomjs: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

3. So I installed libfreetype.so.6:
sudo yum install libfreetype.so.6

4. I still get the same phantomjs error, which says libfreetype.so.6 is not found.

5. Looks like the libfreetype.so.6 was installed on /usr/lib, which is for 32 bit software and phantomjs needs one for 64 bit system.

6. So I created symlinks and placed them in /usr/lib64/

7. I get different error message (progress made!):
phantomjs: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

8. It turned out that I just needed to install freetype:
yum install freetype

9. Now another dependency issue:
libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

10. “yum install fontconfig”. that installed correct lib files.

11. Got it installed. 🙂

[xxxxx@localhost ~]$ phantomjs –version
1.7.0

UPDATE Dec 6, 2012
Found this blog post for Phantomjs and qunit.

Another very resourceful answers at stackoverflow regarding phantomjs, ant, and jenkins.

Resources:

• Phantom JS on Centos 5
• Continuous Integration for Javascript